Pay the Price: A Dark New Adult Romance by Sadie Hunt

Author:Sadie Hunt [Hunt, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackthorn Press
Published: 2024-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

Daisy

Awoman in nothing but thong underwear and a bustier smiled from behind the half door of a small room. “Cell phones please.”

The Beasts stepped up and handed over their phones and the woman handed them each a ticket with a number printed on it before turning to place the phone in a metal locker.

She looked at me expectantly, and I hesitated. I hardly remembered what it was like to be without a phone. It was a safety net, especially in a strange place.

But the woman was looking at me expectantly, and it wasn’t like I was alone.

I had the Beasts.

I dug my phone out of my bag and handed it to her.

“I can take your bag too if you’d like,” she said.

I thought about what was inside: lipstick, powder, and a tiny wallet with my driver’s license and credit cards that either had been canceled by my dad or were almost maxed out.

I pushed it across the counter. “Thanks.”

She handed me a ticket and I put it in Wolf’s hand. He stuffed it in his pocket with his number and we headed down the hall.

And now I really heard the music. Not just one beat but several. Classical music was the loudest, but underneath it was something more sensual, the thump of bass from an underground club, the synth of techno from a rave.

I found the source of the classical music in the first two rooms off the foyer, rooms I recognized as original parlors from the research I’d done on old houses like the one I’d inherited.

People of all ages mingled on velvet sofas and upholstered wing chairs, the music playing softly in the background, the murmur of conversation civilized.

No one was fucking. No one was even undressed, although everyone was dressed to the nines.

“Want a drink?” Otis asked.

“Sure.” I was already a little buzzed from the champagne in the limo, but I was in a sex club with the three hottest guys on the planet, so I might as well go all in.

We headed for a bar at one end of the room and the guys ordered drinks. A minute later, Wolf handed me something pink and pretty in a cut-crystal glass half-filled with ice, then leaned against the bar to sip the amber liquid in his own glass.

I took a sip of the pink drink and fought a grimace. It was fruity but strong.

“What is this place?” I was beginning to think we’d wandered into the wrong building, a charity event or dinner party instead of a sex club.

“It’s the Velvet Rope,” Otis said.

“No, I get that,” I said. “But what is this place? This room?”

“It’s like… a reception area,” Wolf said.

“A reception area?”

“Think of it as a locker room,” Otis said.

“A locker room?” I was doing that thing again, that thing where I just repeated what they said because none of it made sense, like repeating it would make it make sense when really it just made the making-sense part take longer.

“People hang out here before and after they fuck,” Jace said, cutting to the chase.

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